"Who has seen the wind?" [Tsuneyoshi Saito]

"Who has seen the wind?" [Tsuneyoshi Saito]

First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?

Saito Tsuneyoshi; music (Japanese, born 1965)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Morris, William; text (English, 1834-1896)

2005 [album release date]

genre: song|popular music

solo: high voice

chorus: high voices

instrumentation: keyboard

origin: Japan

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"

Work contains texts by multiple authors

Notes about the text: The second half of the song "Who has seen the wind?" consists of the first four lines of William Morris' sonnet "Summer Dawn."

Composition history: Part of the soundtrack called "Erementar Gerad React Re-No:1 Sound-Side," written for the anime adaptation of Elemental Gelade (also translated as Erementar Gerad), a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mayumi Azuma, which aired on TV Tokyo, 5 April to 27 September 2005 (List of Elemental Gelade episodes). According to Anime DataBase, the song "Who Has Seen the Wind?" is featured in episode 16 called "追憶の銃弾(ワイルドブリッド) - Memory of a Wildbird."

Recordings: "Who Has Seen the Wind?." Composition by Tsuneyoshi Saito, performance by Kaoru Saito, vocal and chorus, Yuki Kajiura, keyboard and programming, エレメンタルジェレイド 同契 Re-No:1 SOUND-SIDE [Erementar Gerad React Re-No:1 Sound-Side], Victor, Victor Entertainment Inc., 2005, track 29. (soundtrack). YouTube, uploaded by Space Ninja Eleven, 25 Oct. 2016, https://youtu.be/pzXGupaMCNk.

Format 1: sound recording

Running time 1 minute 49 seconds

Other data reference(s): "Song: Who Has Seen the Wind?." Anime DataBase, https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=song&songid=13072. Accessed 08 April, 2018.
"Erementar Gerad React Re-No:1 SOUND-SIDE." VGMdb the music of visual arts and games, https://vgmdb.net/album/22270. Accessed 25 Nov. 2020.
"List of 'Elemental Gelade' episodes." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Elemental_Gelade_episodes. Accessed 25 Nov. 2020.

Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-whohasseen-saito

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